“Gaga is the name of the movement that the [Batsheva] company is trained in daily. With Gaga we discover our movement patterns, and we become attuned to our weaknesses and to the places of atrophy in our bodies. We become more efficient in our movement and it allows us to go beyond familiar movements. We connect to our joy of dance and to our explosive power.”
–Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company
James Graham was chosen by Ohad Naharin to be a Certified Gaga instructor and to take part in his pilot training program of international dancers/ teachers. He has taught Gaga extensively on the West Coast, in the Midwest, as well as in Canada, South Korea, Sweden, and Israel. Graham was recently awarded an IZZIE Award in Individual Performance and nominated for his Choreography. He holds an M.F.A. from The Ohio State University and a B.A. from UC Berkeley. And he is currently on faculty at UC Berkeley, LINES/ Dominican University, and has been instructing Gaga classes at SFCD since 2012.